The One Thing I Have to Share: Our Activities for the Recovery from the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan Tomoyuki Banno Program Manager Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan (ETIC) (Japan)
May 12, 2015
The One Thing I Have to Share:Our Activities for the Recovery from the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan
Tomoyuki BannoProgram Manager
Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation of Japan (ETIC) (Japan)
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Our activities for the recovery from
the earthquake and tsunami in Japan
Tomoyuki Banno
Program Manager, Incubation Division
(Entrepreneurial Training for Innovative Communities)
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About ETIC.
� Provide training and supports tofuture leaders
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A leading organization for
“youth entrepreneurship development” in
Japan� Partnership
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Internship program
(work with entrepreneurs)
Support for start-up
social entrepreneurs
Nation-wide network
(scale out)
What we do38
� 2500+ participants (since 1997)
� 200 alumni started their own
company/NGO
� 150 social entrepreneurs (since 2002)
� 200+ mentors network
� Partnership with 30 intermediaries
Provide training and supports to
young people who would be a good
entrepreneur.
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After the 3.11 earthquake and tsunami disasters
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The bottleneck for recovery40
Shortage of young workforce is one of the
major problems for the recovery of the
affected area
Young population
flowed out to urban area
Originally high aging
rate Serious shortage of
young people to work for recovery
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Our solution: Fellowship program for recovery41
We decided to send 200 Fellows to 100
projects in 3 years to accelerate recovery
projectsFellows
Entrepreneurship
Business expertise
Servant leadership
Individuals in their 20s-
30s from all over Japan
Recovery Projects
� Full-timework withleaders
� 6-12 months
Meeting local needs
Meeting local needs
Good leaders
Innovative approachInnovative approach
Carefully selected based
on the following criteria
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47 projects across the affected area (1st year)42
Coastal areadestroyed by the tsunami
Support evacuees
plant
Support evacueesfrom the neighborhood ofFukushima nuclear plant
Tokyo
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Child education
support NGO
Value-added
agricultural
business
Examples of Fellows43
Temporary
NGO
Temporary
housing
support
NGO
� Retail store manager
� Financial manager & project manager
� International NGO
� Fundraiser & Donor relations
� IT consultant
� Community manager
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Thank you.
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